Tour with Guns N’ Roses

In 1992, the band went on tour with Guns N’ Roses and Soundgarden in Europe. A reason they were chosen was since Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose was a fan of Faith No More and The Real Thing , with Rose saying in 1990 that Faith No More were the only band he was “jealous of”. Faith No More later replaced Nirvana on a 1992 North American tour with Guns N’ Roses and Metallica, after Kurt Cobain refused to perform with Guns N’ Roses. Faith No More were at an August 26, 1992 concert in Montreal , Canada, where Metallica’s James Hetfield was badly burned by pyrotechnics and Guns N’ Roses incited a riot after performing hours late and leaving early. Faith No More were fired from the tour in September 1992, as they had started taking humorous jabs at Guns N’ Roses in the media, in response to their behavior. Regarding the tours with Guns N’ Roses, Bottum reflected in 1992, “at each stop on the tour, before Guns N’ Roses would come to a town, they would have their crew arrive a day early and find the local club, where they’d give strippers backstage passes. Every night, the whole scenario was like millions of stripper chicks just hanging out waiting to do one of the band, or a roadie or whoever”. In another interview, he added, “it was bananas. We just laughed at how fucking ridiculous they were.” Following the Guns N’ Roses and Metallica shows, the band continued to tour through to mid-1993, doing another two tours in Europe, another in North America and a tour of the Pacific Rim , including Australia, Guam , Hawaii , Japan, New Zealand and the Northern Mariana Islands .